Hi gang, I want to recommend the book
Producing Open Source Software How to Run a Successful Free Software Project written by Karl Fogel, published by O'Reilly and also available online at http://www.producingoss.com/ to everyone. Reading it and applying its advice to your contributions (insofar as you don't follow this advice already) will make those contributions more valuable to this project and probably also increases the likelyhood that you will be invited to become a committer and/or a PPMC member. (If you're not a (potential) contributor, but rather the manager of developers contributing to harmony, I'd suggest you buy a copy for each and everyone of them, one for yourself, and one for your boss) Karl describes many big concepts and small details that are important when participating in an open source project. Karl is one of the people behind the subversion project, which is run very similar to most apache projects. As such, the processes he describes are very similar to those we (try to) employ here. Not all of the book is all that relevant for Harmony (after all, apache has a whole lot of the things Karl describes already in place and a lot of the choices already made), but in particular these two chapters are probably a rather good read for all of us: Chapter 2. Getting Started http://www.producingoss.com/html-chunk/getting-started.html Starting From What You Have Choosing a License and Applying It Setting the Tone Magnitude of the Change Announcing Chapter 6. Communications http://www.producingoss.com/html-chunk/communications.html You Are What You Write Avoiding Common Pitfalls Difficult People Handling Growth No Conversations in the Bug Tracker Publicity Poul-Henning's classic "bikeshed" post is also a must-read for everyone involved in open source, and its reproduced in the book at http://www.producingoss.com/html-chunk/bikeshed-full.html I've been "doing open source" for a while now, and I still had more than a bit to learn from reading the book. cheers, Leo --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
